Today's East China Sea is calm, the sky is cloudless, like a mirror-like calm sea slowly sailing a huge fleet, the top of the mast a little white sail quickly covered the entire sea, if there are people familiar with the sea situation, do not have to guess to know that this is the fleet of the Jiazhou Naval Division, because in the sea near Dawei, except for them, there is no such fleet. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the bow of the flagship, Qian Hua looked at the fleet under his command with high spirits, and when he went south to Jiangnan Dongdao, the size of the fleet doubled, and after obtaining the timber and craftsmen accumulated by Jiangnan Dongdao, the speed of Jiazhou to build new ships skyrocketed, which could not only meet the needs of Jiazhou sailors to expand their scale, but also provide faster, stronger and higher volume merchant ships for the maritime merchants from all over the Great Wei.

From Jiangnan East Road to Huainan Road and Lingnan Road, all merchants who did maritime trade were proud to have a new merchant ship built by the Qiantang Shipyard, and they came from all over the world to form a long queue outside the shipyard, trying all kinds of ways to get a new ship in front of others; The merchants who were lucky enough to line up in advance to get the ships were met with a crowd of people chasing after them, carrying large and small boxes of gold and silver to buy the ships at a higher price, but even though their prices had more than doubled the ex-factory price, these lucky fellows still refused to let go.

It is true that they can make a fortune by selling the merchant ships now, but as long as they drive the ships to the ports and load them with goods to the countries of the South Seas, they can earn most of the ships back and forth, and who will do such a thing of killing chickens and taking eggs.

Of course, no matter how fierce the competition of those merchants is, it has nothing to do with Qian Hua, the first priority of the shipyard is to meet the needs of the sailors, the warships required by Qian Hua have already been delivered in advance, and whether it is the degree of sturdiness, the number of cannons or the speed are far above those merchant ships, this time he took hundreds of warships from Qiantang to the sea, and went north, and the soldiers pointed directly at the junction of Henan Province and Hedong Road, so as to disturb Yuan Zhang's rear before Li You commanded the army to attack Henan Province, so that he could not take care of each other.

"General Yan, do you see that you have arrived in Henan Province in front?" Qian Hua put down the telescope and pointed to the small islands dotted in front of him, although there are already instruments for distinguishing the direction of the sea such as the star plate among the sailors, but the accuracy is not enough, and if you want to determine the location more accurately, you still have to rely on the islands in the route and the topography of the coast, etc., and Qian Hua rarely took this route to the north before, so he could only ask Yan Zhenquan, who was more familiar with this route.

Yan Zhenquan, who had changed into the costume of Jiazhou Sailor, also looked much more energetic, he immediately pointed the telescope at the direction he pointed after hearing Qian Hua's inquiry, and recognized these small islands at a little discrimination, he said firmly, "General Qian, the front is Wuhu Island, after Wuhu Island, you will enter Wuhu Lake, and you can reach the coast of Dizhou by driving northwest for three days along Wuhu Lake, and Dizhou is the border between Henan Road and Hedong Road." ”

"Good!" Seeing that this voyage was close to success, Qian Hua laughed and said, "This is two days earlier than expected, and I don't know if the manpower in Dizhou is ready." "There are also men and horses lurking in the Black Ice Platform here in Dizhou, who will provide Qian Hua with route guidance, intelligence support, and help them contact the nearby rebels.

"Even if we don't know in advance, it's not too late to find them after we take Dizhou." Yan Zhenquan said with confidence that the huge naval division behind him has a total of hundreds of warships and nearly 30,000 sailors, of which 20,000 are soldiers who can land and fight, plus the help of the battleship artillery, it is not a problem to take Dizhou, which is only garrisoned by thousands of soldiers and horses.

"It's a pity that I don't know what the hydrological situation of the big river outside Dizhou City is, if the river is deep and wide enough, let's sail the battleship directly outside the city and fire a few cannons, those northern captives in the city will probably be scared, right?" Qian Hua said with a little regret that Dizhou was built at the mouth of a large river, which was suitable for attacking with warships.

"When the last general led merchant ships north, he rarely anchored in Dizhou in the past, and I really don't know much about this." Yan Zhenquan also shook his head helplessly, Dizhou has never been a popular port, so he doesn't know either.

"Hehe, even if you don't know, it's just a little more time, it's just a big deal that we will bring people to land and attack the city." Qian Hua put this regret aside in an instant, and summoned the generals of the Navy Division to study the landing strategy for capturing Dizhou.

Three days later, the fleet could see the hills outside the city of Dizhou from a distance, and the defenders in the city also saw them, after a rapid sound of gongs and drums, the four gates of the city of Dizhou were closed, and the soldiers defending the city poured onto the city wall, nervously looking at this unprecedented fleet coming from the sea, and the sailors of the Northern Yuan Dynasty only had a few small sampans, so this look was the enemy.

"So many, such a big ship? I'm afraid I can luck tens of thousands of soldiers? A cold sweat broke out on the forehead of the defender Pu Suli, now there are only thousands of defenders in Dizhou City, and half of them are the surrendered Great Wei Forbidden Army, can they hold this city? Isn't it time to think about your own future?

Seeing that the ships were gradually approaching, Pu Suli hurriedly commanded the cavalry out of the city to meet the attack, trying to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Jiazhou naval division to drive them into the sea, but unexpectedly, the cavalry of the Beiyu had not yet rushed to the front of the Jiazhou army that landed, and the battleships in the distance continued to burst into flames, sounding a huge roar, and one by one the shells flew into the military formation of the Beiyu cavalry, and the men and horses blocking the flight path of the cannonballs were immediately torn to pieces, and after three rounds of shooting, the beach was full of severed limbs and stumps of the Beiyu people and horses. Those who were lucky enough to save their lives were also frightened, and they immediately fled without caring about the military order.

They didn't dare to return to Dizhou City, not to mention whether Pu Suli would deal with their crime of escaping, how could the low city wall of Dizhou stop the magic weapon just now? So they simply bypassed Dizhou City, left the city behind and fled to the northwest.

The power of the cannon and the soldiers who fled just now made the defenders in the city suddenly fall into a panic, and there were constantly people persuading Pu Suli to abandon the city and flee, he couldn't take care of it after thinking about it, and immediately threw the responsibility of defending the city to the surrendered Great Wei forbidden army, and he fled from the west gate with his family and the Northern Yuan soldiers.

Waiting for Pu Suli and the others to go away, the guards did not hesitate to give the order to open the door and surrender, Pu Suli and the others did not know that he and most of the generals had been persuaded to surrender by the Black Ice Platform, and then the city gate was opened, and Qian Hua's soldiers took the first stronghold after the landing without blood.